The knife is the only reliable weapon I found. Just walk up to them and stab, the hitbox of the thing is very generous and there's like a little dash or something. Far more reliable than any weapons up until the AK for the tech person, shotguns included.

I am on the PC indeed. It was gifted over Steam.

I know that I have stabbed a level 30 player before but I got no gold tags, or maybe he was the wrong one. I just know I've stabbed a whole lot and no gold tags.

The way I see the pin and patch system is that it forces you to play with certain guns even when you don't want to. Having to do something I'd rather not do is a pretty shitty design idea for an entertainment medium.

Also it's fine if you don't like the later guns, but the simple fact is that the early guns are just shit and seem like they only exist so that low level players suck. There is no reason why this game couldn't have been just 10 ranks with half the guns. Considering that 3/4 of the guns are useless, I'm being very generous here.

I think that the shotgun isn't reliable at all. If you can't get a 1 shot kill with it at close range then it's useless. The AK is the Assault's starting gun, are you referring to another gun?

I believe getting players to try out new weapons temporarily is a good thing. But that's subjective opinion, and I respect your's.

No, the early guns and later guns have their advantages and disadvantanges. In other words, they're balanced, nothing is better than the rest. The MG3 has extreme rate of fire, but isn't reliable at far range. Statisticly, it's not better than the M60 in everything, and vice versa. Again, statisticly speaking, the early guns are not inferior to the later. 3/4s of the gun aren't useless the F9000 is good for headshots and close range, the M416 is superior at closer range than the M16, the M16 alllows skilled people to get headshots, the AUG has a nice balance, etc.

You can say that the early guns suck as a matter of opinion, but stasticly, they are not.

The AK 74 or whatever. And it is NOT the starting gun at all. It is the 9A-91 or whatever and it sucks. As does the 2nd and 3rd gun. The AK is the 4th. There is absolutely NO advanatge to those first 3 guns. Literally none. It's not liek one has better aim or better damage or more ammo than the later ones. They are all sucky but different form each other. The numbers say they jsut suck in any way. The later guns are the ones that have different stats and are actually good. Now if everyone had only the starter guns this wouldn't be a problem, but since they suck completely when compared to later ones it is a big problem.

The gun you're reffering to is the starting gun of the Engineer, not the Assault, which has mine and KylieDog's respect. Especially with a red dot (although I do like the tiny iron sights as well) are great fro headshots as it has very little recoil. It does suffer from a low clip though.

I don't like the SCAR too much, the recoil is higher than the 9A

And do you realize how much later on the red dot is?

Oh yeah, starting weps suck so bad that I am rank 4 and I just got my knife gold star.

Dude, I managed to get to where I am starting where you started as well. Stop whining. I'm using the M249 SAW which is the SECOND gun you get as a medic. The AKS-74U is a good gun, but has a lot of recoil in comparison to other SMGs, making it closer to an assault rifle.

The starting weps don't suck so bad, because I used them in the beginning as well and got beyond rank 4. If you really have a problem with the guns, just kill a higher level's  and steal theirs.

There are so many fucking ways to kill people in this game. Play in a tank and get the non-class specific guns if it's so bad.

Stop engaging people head on like it's CoD and flank them for god's sake. Weapon stats don't mean shit if you're getting shot from behind by someone.

I honestly don't think I would have managed to get the knife gold medal if I didn't flank and go around quietly. I also managed to get out of the bad guns by getting the non-class specific shot guns, which also require plenty of flanking to use. The whole levelling system is just flawed, gimme all the guns and leave the pins, if people want to get all pins they will try all the guns anywho, no point of having both systems really.

The pins and patches are nice because they give incentive to have people go for M-COMs (Like I'm doing, need 50ish more), do support role, etc.

If you're flanking everyone and getting so many kills, why are you complaining about the guns? Why are you still at rank 4? You level up very fast in this game.

No you really really don't level up fast. I have been at about 1k points per game and I am still rank 4, just hit half way to 6 cause the gold medal in knifing gave me 5000 points.